[Ads-l] Alligator Bait

[Jonathan Lighter]

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/florida-will-no-longer-use-gator-bait-cheer-due-to-its-horrific-racist-imagery-182106196.html


JL

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:55 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <
adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yet another very impressive article. Great work, Peter. Thanks for sharing.
> Garson
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 7:51 PM Peter Reitan <pjreitan at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > There is an old racist slur, "alligator bait," used to refer to black
> > people, especially black children.
> >
> > There are numerous memes and articles that get circulated around the
> > internet suggesting that the expression was derived from the actual
> > practice of using children as bait in hunting alligators; placing them
> > in shallow water, or sometimes tying them to a post or tree, luring the
> > alligators in close, and then shooting them in the eye at the last
> > possible second.
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